Of plastic bags and eco doom.

The Plastic Bags and Eco Doom theory: will plastic bags end life as we know it?

Plastic Bag and Eco Doom predictions tell us that plastic grocery and garbage bags will still be buried in the land fills and dumps a thousand years from now.

Well … so what?

Plastic bags and eco doom is just the latest in a long line of
ridiculous and even silly notions that simply get popularized in the
public psyche and generally accepted in public lore as being somehow
true, with minimal thinking applied. Certainly no critical thinking. Nobody ever argues against it.

First, we had our ever famous human Population Problem that said the human population was out of control and dooming the planet, with a huge assortment of eco-doom predictions, not a single one of which ever came close to being true, long, long after the predicted dates had past. It lead to the sub-theory that says that
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, which is a popular “theory” held by many people today.

There were a vast array of follow-on eco-doom theories that followed, most elaborated upon in the Eco-Nazi page. The world is running out of resources;
(false!) The world is running out of food; (false!) The world is too
dependent on the limited oil supply; (false!) and a host of others. We
all just keep on exhaling CO2 (Carbon Dioxide), a known
greenhouse-gas, and thus causing the earth’s climate to warm, and
therefore the ice-caps will melt and New York city will be under water
by next Wednesday or so. Unless we submit to the wisdom of the Marxists. I mean Democrats.

I was going to say that this one was the silliest and
the least scientific, but then I remembered the great horror uncovered
in the scientific study of cattle farts. “Bovine Flatulence” was to be
the new eco-doom. It was found that methane was, like ordinary CO2, a so-called greenhouse gas
that would warm the earth and doom us all. Again. If something else
hadn’t already doomed us first. It made me think of the Indian stories
of the bison before Buffalo Bill; whole oceans of bison, as far as the
eye could see. Back when there were all those buffalo as far as the eye
could see, I’ll bet if any Comanche or Lakota had struck a match over
the herd, the whole of the North American continent might have been
vaporized in a giant explosion and huge mushroom cloud that might have
brought about a nuclear winter and froze the earth solid. But,
hey, it didn’t happen, and so now we’ve got to find a drug to ease the
gas of cows, or slowly die.

I think this latest flap about plastic bags and eco
doom is related to the fact that plastic is developed from oil, which is
simply hated by all eco-doomers. They just despise oil. They are
convinced that all wars are fought over it, and over nothing else. They
are convinced that Big Oil is in conspiracy to rule the world or
something, instead of produce energy. The real goal is to, what they
call, rape the planet, apparently for fun and profit. Oil makes plastic; therefore, plastic is evil.

The latest silly twit I saw on TV pushing the notion of
plastic bag eco-doom was all in a dither over his over-emphasized
statement that a plastic garbage bag in a land fill will still be in
that land fill over a thousand years from now. No poop.

So what?

The rock buried right beside it might also be there a thousand years from now. Again, so what?

So, we probably need another gazillion dollars to get rid of all the plastic bags in all the landfills, that’s so what.

Because it’s just so unsightly. See?

Someone somehow figured out that if we gathered all the discarded plastic water bottles together end-to-end, they could be made to circle the earth X number of times; someone else opined that they could reach out to circle the moon and return, again, X number of times.

My advice to the "scientists" who are so horrified at the notion of water bottles being so arranged to circle the earth or reach to the moon, is, if the thought of it bothers you, don't do it.

My advice to the dimwits who are so concerned about the unsightliness of all the plastic bags buried in land fills is, don't go digging in land fills and you'll never see the plastic.

How on earth did we ever become a great nation?

Does anyone else out there see this as herd thinking?

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